It was to Travers Madge
that EG
related the famous story that had inspired Mary Barton. She was, during her parish duties, visiting a poor family. As she tried to convince them that the...
Occupation
Elizabeth Gaskell
EG
became more involved in the Mosley Street Sunday Schools
, through the encouragement of Travers Madge
, a Unitarian minister who moved from the paid ministry to devote himself to home missionary work.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
156
Hewitt, Martin. “The Travails of Domestic Visiting: Manchester, 1830-70”. Historical Research, Vol.
71
, No. 175, 1998, pp. 196-27.
209
Publishing
Elizabeth Gaskell
EG
published occasionally in other English venues: for instance, she placed the story Hand and Heart in her friend Travers Madge
's Sunday School Penny Magazine.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
234
However, the bulk of her fiction was...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Gaskell
EG
wrote Mary Barton following the death of her ten-month-old son in 1845. Johann Ludwig Uhland
's Auf der Überfahrt, from which she takes one of her epigraphs, refers to two from the spirit-land...
